by Ian McMillan | Jan 31, 2024 | Awards
Marianne Flakk, a senior neuro physiotherapist at Linden Lodge neuro-rehabilitation unit in Nottingham, has praised the efforts made by a patient who is walking again after falling 35 feet from a roof on to a concrete surface. Roofer Simon Bell, 58, sustained a brain...
by Ian McMillan | Jan 30, 2024 | Sports & Exercise
Men should be encouraged to improve their fitness levels to help them lower their chances of developing – though not dying from – prostate cancer. That is the conclusion of paper published online today (31 January) in the British Journal of...
by Ian McMillan | Jan 29, 2024 | Trauma & Orthopaedic
Technological advances mean that traditional joint replacement operations could become redundant in the coming years, according to the authors of a popular article that recently won an award. The paper – titled ‘3D bioactive composite scaffolds for...
by Ian McMillan | Jan 24, 2024 | Paediatric
Researchers have found that children who have been. classified as ‘moderately or late preterm’ at birth have relatively high rates of neurodevelopmental difficulties when they are older, according to a study in The BMJ today (25 January). The...
by Ian McMillan | Jan 24, 2024 | Musculoskeletal
Figures released by the Office for National Statitics (ONS) last week showed that the number of people who have been signed off as unable to work due to back pain has increased sharly in recent years. In response, Kamila Hawthorne, chair of the Royal College...
